Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

We were a little light the past couple weeks as well so it's not just you. People have seemed to have lost interest in eating food I guess, I had a couple light pay checks, however last week was a tid bit heavier and this week case counts seem to have gone up some as well.

 

Because someone was filing that hangnail first, LoL~! ?

 

The management crew when I first started was former drivers and they would go out and do some P & D when we got slammed. They ran the terminal like a top- we moved more freight in less time with less people- profit machine. Then corporate managed to chase them away and we have people in charge who have never driven LTL and the routing,trailer loading,and pick up dispatching have gone down the ####ter. My manager and dock supervisors wouldn't know a fifth wheel from a clutch pedal.

 

They sit their useless carcasses in the cushy office chair coming up with dumb last minute deliveries for us to come back and get which ####s up the rest of our days. Then they play on their smart phones while us drivers are out there doing actual work. That is what "they" do all day.

 

It will ignored. If something does not directly affect an office rat in a negative way they couldn't care less about it.

 

I'mma drop some irony on y'all.

The customer that's given me the most headache since Friday? FXE. Let that sink in.

We've had a delivery for one of their dark terminals for days now. We can't get ahold of anyone who actually works there, whatever number we call gives us the runaround "we have nothing to do with that, you have to call blah blah blah at blah blah blah." And so on.

So I get pinged with a pickup...at that FXE terminal. I get there, no one in sight, and I find a wrapped pallet. The BOL (only copy) is completely and thoroughly taped to the freight. I can't write on tape, and there's no shipper signature on it. I call our main office; pickup refused. Then our local dispatcher puts it on me AGAIN, and I have to explain that I've just been there and we ain't taking it without the proper paperwork. These folks just don't seem to understand that freight != package delivery. You don't drop the freight and run, and you don't just stick a label on it and throw it on the truck!

Both the pickup and delivery are supposed to be sorted out and done tomorrow. We shall see...

 

This kinda reminds me of when I arrive at a pickup and the shipper asks me "what are you picking up?" How the #### do I know,you guys called in for a pick up. Or when they show me the freight I am picking up I ask them where are the 2 copies of the BOL. They tell me "we don't have any paperwork, don't you have it?" People are so ####ing stupid.

 

"We were told you'd provide the paperwork!"

You were lied to. Now you know how I feel way too much of the time.

 

First linehaul run tonight was smooth sailing. Second, not so much. First trailer on my second run had a hazmat shipment buried up in the nose with a bol that only had the Un number and the number of pieces listed. Dock guys were thrilled when I told them they had to dig it out.

Get that off and run down to our twin citys terminal, throw my trailer in the dock, fuel and go hook to my next trailer so I can head home. And find this. Apparently nobody did a post trip on this trailer. That dock crew was even more thrilled than the ones at my home terminal. Fourty six bills of double stacked fun to swing to a new trailer.